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I Sent 500 Requests to Auto-Routing. It Saved Me 47% and I Never Picked a Model.

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I Sent 500 Requests to Auto-Routing. It Saved Me 47% and I Never Picked a Model. Last month I looked at my API bill and noticed something. Almost 60% of my requests were simple. Summarization, translation, factual Q&A. But I was sending all of them to the same expensive model, because I had set it…

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  1. 2026-09-20 05:36 · DEV Community — AI
    I Sent 500 Requests to Auto-Routing. It Saved Me 47% and I Never Picked a Model.

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